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True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsAnna Kepner's Stepbrother: What the Judge Said Before He Was Locked Up
The same judge who let Timothy Hudson live with his uncle reversed himself and ordered him into federal custody. The detention order is fourteen pages. The…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsNick Reiner Had a Screaming Match With Rob the Night Before — No One Will Say Why
Nick Reiner argument Conan O’Brien party — multiple sources reported that Nick and Rob Reiner got into a heated, loud confrontation at a Christmas gathering…
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What Rex Heuermann's Phone Call to a Victim's Sister Revealed
Rex Heuermann received consecutive life sentences for the murders of eight women he strangled over a seventeen-year span. The judge called him disgusting…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsDid Nancy Guthrie's Alleged Abductors Show Up at the Wrong Address?
An eighty-four-year-old woman with no known cryptocurrency was allegedly taken from her home in one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in Tucson. A…
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Harmony Montgomery’s Murder Case Relied on One Witness!
The prosecution’s case for how five-year-old Harmony Montgomery died on December 7, 2019, depended almost entirely on the testimony of Kayla Montgomery — Adam…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsIf Alex Murdaugh Never Did Anything Alone, Why Would the Murders Be the Exception?
Blanca Turrubiate-Simpson served as the Murdaugh family’s housekeeper for approximately twenty years. She observed the defendant’s operational pattern across…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsAnna Kepner Cruise Ship Case: Can Her Parents Be Charged If No Federal Law Covers It?
The question at the center of the Anna Kepner case has shifted from the accused to the adults who allegedly put her in harm’s way. Timothy Hudson’s own…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsIs Nick Reiner’s $1.5 Million Trust Beyond the Reach of California’s Slayer Statute?
The question at the center of the Reiner trust litigation is not whether Nick Reiner should receive his parents’ money. It is whether the legal mechanism…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsNancy Guthrie Case: Was This a Crypto Operation — and Are Investigators Running the Wrong Case?
CertiK, a blockchain security firm with a reported valuation exceeding two billion dollars, has formally classified the abduction of Nancy Guthrie as a wrench…
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Alex Murdaugh’s Retrial Judge Praised Harpootlian Under Oath — Now She Controls His Fate
Judge Debra McCaslin has been vested with exclusive jurisdiction over the Alex Murdaugh retrial and all related proceedings. During her judicial confirmation…
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Why Did Nancy Guthrie’s Caller Skip $1 Million in Rewards to Phone a Volunteer Group?
The combined FBI and family reward for information leading to the resolution of Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance exceeds one million dollars. An anonymous man who…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsMackenzie Shirilla’s Mother Used Code to Ask About a Cover Story on a Monitored Call
Prosecutors decoded monitored prison calls in which Mackenzie Shirilla and her mother Natalie communicated using a fabricated language specifically designed to…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsIs Alex Murdaugh’s Retrial Judge Too Close to His Defense Lawyer to Be Impartial?
When the South Carolina Supreme Court assigned Judge Debra McCaslin exclusive jurisdiction over the Alex Murdaugh murder retrial, the appointment carried a…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsIs Nick Reiner About to Get $1.5 Million to Beat His Parents’ Murder Case?
A probate petition filed in Los Angeles County has brought the Nick Reiner murder case into a second courtroom — one where the rules are different and the…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsAnna Kepner: The Accused Killer’s Own Grandmother Turns on His Parents
She helped raise the teenager now accused of killing Anna Kepner. And she just went on national television and pointed the finger at his parents.Timothy…
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Why Is LISK Rex Heuermann Only Reading About Serial Killers?
Rex Heuermann isn’t reading sports books in his cell. He’s not reading cookbooks or self-help or anything a person does when they’re processing what they’ve…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsIs Rex Heuermann Connected to Missing Women in Other States?
Property in South Carolina. A timeshare in Las Vegas. Investigators examining ties to Atlantic City. And women who disappeared near all of them.Rex Heuermann’s…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsNick Reiner's Trust Had No Clause to Stop a Payout After Murder Charges — Does Yours?
Nick Reiner trust payout — his trust reportedly had no clause to stop a distribution after a murder charge. Does your family's trust have one? Most don't.The…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsHow Did the Grim Sleeper Kill for 25 Years While the LAPD Kept It Secret?
Lonnie Franklin Jr. was not a criminal mastermind. He used the same .25 caliber handgun for every killing. He operated within a ten-block radius in South Los…
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Did Asa Ellerup Profit From Rex Heuermann’s Murders?
The number is reportedly over a million dollars. That is what Asa Ellerup earned from a Peacock documentary about the Gilgo Beach case — her ex-husband’s case…
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Did Rex Heuermann Really Call Her Sister From the Victim’s Phone?
It is on the record. Melissa Barthelemy’s sister stood up in a Suffolk County courtroom during Rex Heuermann’s sentencing and told the court he called her from…
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Is Mackenzie Shirilla Exactly Who Her Parents Raised Her to Be?
The people watching the Mackenzie Shirilla case have a theory. They call it the Parental Architect theory, and the argument is blunt: Steve and Natalie…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsRex Heuermann Killed Eight Women and His Own Family Is Still Picking Up the Pieces
Rex Heuermann pleaded guilty to murdering eight women over seventeen years. His ex-wife sat across from him in a jailhouse visit and asked how many. He said…
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What Hasn't Eric Bland Been Asked About Murdaugh and Stephen Smith?
Every legal analyst in the country has an opinion on the Murdaugh retrial. Very few of them built the case the prosecution used. Eric Bland did. He exposed the…
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Valerie Mack's Son Was Six When Heuermann Killed Her — Now He's Suing the Family
Benjamin Torres was six years old when his mother Valerie Mack disappeared. Her partial remains were found the same year in Manorville. It took two decades to…
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Nancy Guthrie: It’s a Homicide — Why Do People Think She’s in FBI Custody?
On June 9th, the Pima County Sheriff’s Department officially reclassified the Nancy Guthrie case from a missing persons investigation to a homicide. The FBI…
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How Many Women Did Robert Hansen Kill After Police Dismissed Cindy Paulson?
In June 1983, Cindy Paulson ran barefoot across an Anchorage airfield in handcuffs after escaping from Robert Hansen. She told police his name, his address…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsRex Heuermann Killed Women Nobody Would Notice Were Missing — Then Went Home to Dinner
Every woman Rex Heuermann killed was someone the system had already overlooked. Women whose disappearances did not generate search parties or news coverage or…
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Asa Ellerup Divorced Rex Heuermann and Kept Visiting Him in Jail — Why?
Asa Ellerup filed for divorce from Rex Heuermann after his arrest. Then she kept visiting him. She showed up to court appearances. She participated in a…
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Mickey Stines Made Someone Put a Bulletproof Vest on His Wife Before He Shot a Judge
Mickey Stines made someone help put a bulletproof vest on his wife. Per defense filings, he’d lost forty pounds in two weeks. He reportedly told a staffer that…
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Two States Failed Harmony Montgomery — Now the Murder Case Starts Over
Massachusetts gave Adam Montgomery custody of his five-year-old daughter despite twenty-one criminal cases on his record. New Hampshire’s child protection…
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Does Eric Bland Think SLED Is Stalling on Stephen Smith?
Here's what we know. SLED reopened Stephen Smith's case in 2021 because of information found during the Murdaugh murder investigation. In 2023, SLED officially…
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A Court Says Adam Montgomery Owes $15 Million for Harmony’s Death — He’ll Never Pay
A civil court ordered Adam Montgomery to pay fifteen and a half million dollars for the wrongful death of his daughter Harmony. He will never pay a single…
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Anna Kepner: The Judge Doesn’t Trust What Hudson Will Do Before September
Something arrived under seal in the Anna Kepner case — and within two days, the judge who’d been defending Timothy Hudson’s freedom for four months reversed…
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How Did the Railroad Killer's Only Survivor Build a Life From Her Boyfriend's Last Words?
Angel Maturino Reséndiz killed at least fifteen people across six states, riding freight trains from Texas to Kentucky to California. He landed on the FBI's…
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Adam Montgomery Smiled at His Jury and Skipped His Own Murder Trial
Adam Montgomery walked into jury selection for his own murder trial smiling, tongue out. Then he refused to show up for most of the proceedings, choosing to…
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All Five Justices Agreed — Adam Montgomery’s Murder Conviction Had to Go
It wasn’t a split decision. All five justices on the New Hampshire Supreme Court agreed: Adam Montgomery’s second-degree murder conviction in the Harmony…
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Nick Reiner Asked a Court for Socks — He’s Worth Millions on Paper
On paper, Nick Reiner is the sole beneficiary of a trust worth more than $1.5 million. In reality, the newest filing in the Nick Reiner trust fund fight says…
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Nancy Guthrie and Anna Kepner: What Happens When the Law Isn’t Built for the Crime?
If the wrench attack theory is correct, the Pima County Sheriff’s Department has spent four months investigating a conventional kidnapping while the actual…
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What Does Eric Bland Think Murdaugh's 'New Evidence' Really Is?
The prosecution won the first trial in under three hours of jury deliberation. The second trial might not go the same way. The Supreme Court limited the…
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Anna Kepner Cruise Ship: Is There Even a Law the Parents Broke?
The public demand for criminal charges against the parents of the teenagers aboard the Carnival Horizon has intensified since Hudson’s step-grandmother…
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Why Did Lynette Hooker Have the Key If Brian Always Drove the Dinghy?
What happened to Lynette Hooker: Brian Hooker says his wife had the ignition key when she fell from their dinghy in the Bahamas. But Lynette’s daughter says…
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How Did One Nurse Survive Richard Speck by Hiding Under a Bed for Six Hours?
Richard Speck killed eight student nurses in a Chicago townhouse on July 13, 1966. He strangled five and stabbed three over the course of five hours. He used…
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Nancy Guthrie: Are the FBI and Mexico Even Talking to Each Other on This Case?
In February, sources indicated the FBI was in contact with Mexican law enforcement regarding the Guthrie investigation. Sonora’s attorney general publicly…
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Nancy Guthrie: Is Pima County Running the Wrong Investigation?
If the wrench attack theory is correct, the Pima County Sheriff’s Department has been running an investigation structured for a conventional kidnapping while…
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Nancy Guthrie: Why Is a Mexican Search Group Digging for Her Body?
A volunteer collective in Nogales, Mexico, is actively searching for Nancy Guthrie’s remains near the Arizona border — and neither the FBI nor the Pima County…
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What Do the Nancy Guthrie Theories Get Wrong About the Night She Vanished?
Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke apply a uniform evidentiary and behavioral standard to the three dominant theories in the Nancy Guthrie investigation: the…
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Did Prosecutors Waste the Case Eric Bland Handed Them Against Murdaugh?
Attorney Eric Bland has a problem nobody else in the Alex Murdaugh case has. He built the financial crimes case that prosecutors turned into their motive…
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No One in History Has Staged What Nancy Guthrie’s Doubters Claim
The staging claim asserts that the armed, masked individual captured on Nancy Guthrie’s doorbell camera was placed there as part of a manufactured…
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Adam Montgomery Had 21 Criminal Cases — Why Did a Judge Give Him His Daughter?
Adam Montgomery had twenty-one criminal cases in New Hampshire alone when a Massachusetts juvenile court judge decided he was fit to raise a child. The Harmony…
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How Did a Teenage Kidnapping Survivor Catch Serial Killer Bobby Joe Long?
Bobby Joe Long killed at least eight women in Tampa Bay in 1984. He was caught because a seventeen-year-old girl he kidnapped was smarter than he was. Lisa…
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Nancy Guthrie Vanished Sixteen Days After a Caregiver Took Another Woman Her Age
On January 17, 2026, eighty-three-year-old Gail Crane was reported missing from her home in May’s Lick, Kentucky. Investigators determined her former…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsStrangers Dug for Nancy Guthrie in the Desert — No Badge in Sight
Two searches of the Mariposa arroyos west of Nogales, Sonora, have been conducted based on an anonymous tip to Buscando Corazones Nogales, a volunteer…
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Nancy Guthrie's Case: What The FBI Director's Public Criticism Actually Signals
The FBI director publicly criticized the handling of the Nancy Guthrie investigation. Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer, with 28 years of Bureau…
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Samuel Bateman Is Serving Fifty Years — His Followers Still Answer When He Calls
Samuel Bateman is incarcerated in a federal facility serving a fifty-year sentence. He maintains regular telephone contact with followers. A meaningful number…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsJesse Ridgway's Twenty-Year Pattern Mirrors What Researchers Call Attention Addiction
Over a four-year period, Jesse Ridgway produced staged family violence content on YouTube under the Psycho Series brand that generated more than a thousand 911…
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Aaron Spencer's Judge Documented Eleven Detective Failures And Called Every One Intentional
Judge Ralph Wilson Jr.'s nineteen-page order dismissing the murder charge against Aaron Spencer catalogued eleven specific failures by the lead detective and…
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Samuel Bateman's Rescued Girls Filled Journals The FBI Seized — But Couldn't Tell Interviewers A Word
Following their removal from Samuel Bateman's FLDS offshoot, the rescued minors were interviewed by trained forensic specialists. They disclosed nothing…
True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & InterviewsSamuel Bateman Ran His Cult From A Federal Detention Cell
From inside a federal detention facility, Samuel Bateman maintained sufficient control over his followers that three women risked life sentences to execute his…
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Mackenzie Shirilla's Data Recorder Captured Full Throttle And Zero Braking Into A Building
The vehicle's event data recorder documented the accelerator at full capacity, zero brake application, and a direct trajectory into a commercial building in…